Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign defenders have saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam so far, but at the same time the influx of troops has underscored the country's vulnerability. Like the boy who called the bluff on the emperor's new clothes, the Iraqi leader made it plain that Saudi Arabia was not quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between...
...last year-and-a-half the situation has changed for the worse and that has been created by a substantial influx of unfortunates in various catagories--alcoholics, those afflicted with mental problems and the homeless," says Carl F. Barron, president of Putnam Furniture Leasing Company and president of the area's business association...
...most of them remained in the country, with little food, water or money, because of - a shortage of outgoing boats and planes. After the U.S. and the European Community agreed to rush emergency food, medicine and clothes to the refugees, Amman relented, saying it would limit the influx to 20,000 people...
...that is about all the government has done to ease the crisis. Even before the immigrant influx, outdated building methods and excessive governmental red tape had combined to create a housing shortage. It takes nearly 26 months on average to build a new dwelling. An estimated 80,000 new apartments will be needed by the end of 1991, yet the government has budgeted only enough money to build 20,000. In an effort to make up for lost time, on July 1 Sharon got government approval for emergency powers to speed up construction...
...already unified," says Klaus Hartzel, spokesman for the East Berlin municipality. "And," he sighs, "we already have all the problems that go with it." They include stop-and-go traffic, a rising crime rate, high food prices, mass layoffs and an alarming influx of squatters...